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Million of developers worldwide stopped "writing" code
by ishener 13y ago
Million of developers worldwide stopped "writing" code
- freditup 13y agoInteresting question actually - assume I have some code for some specific problem I need to write. Is actually thinking the problem through and writing the code on my own more beneficial, or is it more beneficial to just find code on stackoverflow instead? There are legitimate pros and cons to each way, and I don't know how you tell which is better in some cases.
- thangalin 13y agoWhile writing ConTeXt code (similar to LaTeX), I will reference the StackExchange network: % @see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128858/2148 Brett Victor asks, "How do you get communication started between uncorrelated sentient beings?" to introduce the concept of automatic service discovery using a common language.[1] Alan Kay had a similar idea: that objects should refer to other objects not by their memory space inside a single machine but by their URI.[2] When programmers copy/paste StackOverflow snippets, in a way they are actually closer to realizing Alan Kay's vision of meta-programming than those who subscribe to the "tyranny of a single implementation" -- or "writing" code as some would mock, expressing a narrow view of what they think "programming" a computer must entail. The StackExchange network provides a feature-rich interface to document source code snippets that perform a specific task. What's missing is a formal, structured description of these snippets and a mechanism to provide semantic interoperability that leads to a universal prototyping language for deep messaging interchange.[3] How else are we going to go from Minecraft[4] to Holodeck[5]? [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4#t=790 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4#t=790 [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=2940 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=2940 [3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=3125 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY#t=3125 [4]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1h1U5jHh6U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1h1U5jHh6U [5]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCKDEdtWys#t=39 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCKDEdtWys#t=39
- msoad 13y agoI can't believe you said "million", do we really have millions of developers?
- lukasm 13y agoThere are more than 9 millions of people that write code
- qubyte 13y agoFacetious, or an actual figure? If the latter, can you point us to a ref please?
- lukasm 13y agoI think that was this talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ Joel says that according to MS study there are 9mln people that write code. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/products/listings http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/products/listings
- fabian2k 13y agoStack Overflow gets around 7 million page views per day on the weekend, and around 17 million during the week (https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?qcLocale=en_US https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?qcLocale=en_US). Millions seems to be the appropriate order of magnitude here.
- bmelton 13y agoI had the opposite reaction actually. You posted that, so I went to find out how many developers there are in the US. According to wikipedia, there are approximately 457,000 programmers in the US, which seems like a smaller number than I would have guessed. For contrast, there are ~1.2 million attorneys.
- gingerlime 13y agoon a Sunday?
- fs111 13y agothe weekend is on Friday/Saturday in the Arab world, so yes, lots of people write code on Sundays...
- CSDude 13y agoYou know, there is Google Cache.
- qubyte 13y agoI tend to procrastinate and troll stackoverflow for questions to answer. I'd be more productive, but now I'm trolling Hacker News instead.